Summit Preparatory School
Kalispell, MT

On Wednesday October 28th, recently graduated students Tori and Samantha were guest speakers in the 7th and 8th grade classrooms at West Valley Elementary School in Kalispell as part of Red Ribbon Week. Red Ribbon Week is an alcohol, tobacco and other drug and violence prevention awareness campaign observed annually in October in schools across the nation. Tori and Samantha each shared their story of how substance abuse impacted their lives and damaged their relationship with their families.

They spoke of the work they had to do to get their lives back on track and what it has meant to them. Both girls graduated Summit Prep School on November 23rd and plan to attend college in the spring.

Summit Preparatory School is located in Kalispell, Montana. SPS is an accredited private non-profit therapeutic boarding school specializing in compassionate, relationship-based treatment of bright, capable high school age youth who are struggling in their current academic and/or home community due to emotional, academic and behavioral concerns. All aspects of SPS are based on the SUMMIT MODEL™. Here is the link: http://www.summitprepschool.org/Summit_Model/modelindex.aspx

Summit integrates professional therapy and college preparatory academics within a warm, nurturing and dynamic community that energizes and challenges adolescents to succeed and transform their lives.